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30 June
2005: Methodists on road to Anglican unity
The Telegraph (London) reports
that the Methodist Church in England approved the principle of Methodist
bishops, provided that they are 'not associated with palaces and patronage'.

27 June
2005: Papers for Church of England General Synod
Thinking Anglicans has assembled the list
of resources sent to members of the General Synod in advance of its July
meeting.

25 June
2005: ACC and Israeli/Palestine conflict
Thinking Anglicans has good coverage of the ACC's passing a resolution about
the Israeli Palestine conflict. Here's the
resolution, and here's the TA News
Roundup.

24 June
2005: New ABY to keep out of sex arguments
The Church Times reports
that in a recent interview, the Most Revd Dr John Sentamu, newly-appointed
Archbishop of York, has said that he will not be drawn into Anglican rows
about sexuality. That newspaper ran this
opinion leader about Dr Sentamu's role in the global church.

19 June 2005: ACC meeting this week in Nottingham
The Anglican Consultative Council will meet this week in
Nottingham, England. As is our custom, we will wait until it is finished before we publish much news about it. The turbulent collection
of pre-meeting essays and opinions is easy to find should you wish to read it; we recommend the coverage
at Thinking Anglicans.

19 June 2005: ABC discusses women and gays in television interview
The Scotsman reports 'The Archbishop of Canterbury today said he could see
no “theological objections” to a woman leading the Anglican Church and admitted many Christians were bigoted towards homosexuals.' The
Observer and The
Telegraph both made brief mention of this interview.

17 June 2005: Fundraising for Kunonga trial
The Church Times reports
that an urgent appeal for funds has come from the diocese of Harare in advance of the ecclesiastical court trial of the Rt Revd Nolbert
Kunonga, Bishop of Harare, which begins on 18 July.

16 June 2005: Communiqué on Anglican-Orthodox Theological Dialogue
The Anglican Communion News Service has released a 'Communiqué from
The International Commission of the Anglican-Orthodox Theological Dialogue'.

15 June 2005: Anglican Global Initiative
The Guardian has published a report on a previously-secret
charter for a proposed alternate Anglican Communion, to be called the Anglican Global Initiative. Progressive Episcopalians of Pittsburgh
(PEP), which also obtained a copy of the document, has published this
press release. The document itself is available here;
here is a comparison of the AGI draft with the CAPA Nairobi
Statement released in January. PEP has made available a PDF image
of the document as they received it. The Church Times published this
report on it and ran this
editorial.

15 June 2005: ABC speaks on The Media
The Most Revd and Rt Hon Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, delivered this
speech at Lambeth Palace, preceded by this press release announcing
it. Entitled 'The Media: Public Interest and Common Good'. He exhibits little respect for online news reporting, but we trust that he
is not referring to us and this News Centre.

10 June
2005: Preparing for the ACC meetingThe Episcopal News Service (USA) reports
on preparations for the Anglican Consultative Council meeting, which
will be held June 19-28 in Nottingham, England.

10 June
2005: Interview with Angela Ifill
The Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago recently un-invited the Revd Angela Ifill
from a planned visit to that country because of her liberal views. The Trinidad
and Tobago Express recently tracked her down in New York City and published this
interview.

10 June
2005: New Archbishop of Burundi
The Anglican Communion News Service has announced
the election of the Rt Revd Bernard Ntahoturi as Archbishop of the Anglican
Church of Burundi.

8
June 2005: Membership of the Panel of Reference announced
The Anglican Communion News Service has released
the names of the members of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Panel of Reference.
The Church Times offers this
explanation.

7 June
2005: Statement from Scottish bishops
The Bishops of the Scotttish Episcopal Church have released this
statment concerning the Windsor Report.

6 June
2005: Historic meeting of Inclusive Church
Thinking Anglicans reports
on the recent 'Partnership and strategy day' sponsored by Inclusive Church,
in England. That report generated more reader commentary than anything we
can remember at Thinking Anglicans.

4 June 2005: Covenant could bring big changes The Church Times reports
that 'Millions of churchgoers will face big changes in Sunday worship if the Church of England and the Methodist Church draw closer
together.'

31 May 2005: Anglican Consultative Council ACC-13 Meeting
The Anglican Communion News Service has announced the details of
the upcoming Anglican Consultative Council meeting. This is the meeting that North American representatives have chosen to have a different
representative status than at past meetings.

29 May 2005: Anglican Communion Sunday The Anglican Communion News Service has announced that today
'in many parts of the Communion' it is Anglican Communion Sunday, 'a day to raise awareness of and celebrate the Anglican Communion'.
We urge all of you to be aware of the Anglican Communion and to celebrate it. We suspect that most powerful Anglicans are doing just
that this week, because there doesn't seem to be any significant Anglican news. Earlier this week the Anglican Communion News Service
made the formal announcement of the May 16 release of
the ARCIC document on Mary. Much of what might at first glance be mistaken for Anglican news this week is in truth people stating their
first reaction to that document. As usual, we shall wait a while before reporting opinion as news.

25 May 2005: Canadian Church announces 'presenters' to ACC
The Anglican Church of Canada has announced the names of
the four people who will respond to a request that the church make a presentation to the Anglican Consultative Council next month.

20 May 2005: US delegation to ACC meeting named
One outcome of recent turbulence in the Anglican Communion is that the US and Canadian churches will not engage in 'ordinary participation'
in the upcoming Anglican Consultative Council meeting. The Living Church has just named
the US delegation to that meeting.

15 May 2005: Australia reconsiders women bishopsThe Age and
the Sydney
Morning Herald report that 'Women bishops are back on the agenda of the Anglican church after narrowly failing to win the
required two-thirds majority at the national synod in October.' (It's the same news article, by Barney Zwartz, but you might
have a subscription to one newspaper and not the other).

15 May 2005: New Westminster parish properties to be returned
The Diocese of New Westminster reports
that two former diocesan priests and their followers say that at the end of May they will vacate the church buildings which they
have been occupying. The departure of these two parishes was international news; we have not yet found any commercial newspaper that
has published news of their return.

14 May 2005: Dissident priests in Connecticut
There's been a lot of posturing but none of what we consider to be actual news in the case of the priests who call themselves the 'Connecticut
Six'. The Hartford Courant published this news
story about a publicity event in Connecticut's state capital. When there's news, we'll tell you about it.

14 May 2005: New Westminster offers compromise
Reuters Canada reports
that the Diocese of New Westminster has agreed on Saturday to temporarily limit the number of parishes that perform the ceremony. Here is
the report from the Diocese itself.

13 May 2005: Church and State in Zimbabwe
The Church Times reports
on the plight of witnesses scheduled to testify against the Bishop of Harare in an upcoming criminal trial.

11 May 2005: Archbishop Peter Carnley to lead Panel of Reference
The Anglican Communion News Service reports that The
Most Revd Peter Carnley of Australia has accepted the ABC's request to serve as chair of “The Panel of Reference” created
in response to the request of the recent Primates Meeting. There is extensive
coverage of the announcement on Thinking Anglicans. There have been virtually no reports of this event in the commercial press; this
mostly-factual article from the Associated
Press is pretty much what's there.

7 May 2005:
Adelaide synod prepares for archbishop vote
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports
that after nearly a year without a leader, the synod of the Diocese of
Adelaide is once again preparing to vote on an archbishop.

6 May 2005:
Wrong number of the beast
The Church
Times, Beliefnet,
and the National
Post, all report that recent scholarship applied to fragments of ancient
papyrus indicates that the Number of the Beast is not 666 but 616.

6 May 2005:
Statement from CPSA bishops about same-sex relationships
The Anglican Communion News Service has published a
statement from bishops of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa
on marriage and same-sex relationships.

6 May 2005:
Texas congregation instructed to vacate parish property
The Associated Press reports
that the Bishop of Northwest Texas has
given a breakaway parish until 1 June 2005 to vacate the parish property
because of their refusal to be part of that diocese. We're sure that there
will be more news about this in the weeks leading up to 1 June.

2 May 2005:
Bishop of Chelmsford un-invited to Trinidad
The Trinidad and Tobago Express reports
that the Bishop of Trinidad
and Tobago has withdrawn an invitation for a visit by the Bishop of Chelmsford
because of +Chelmsford's support of North American churches. The
Times (London) reported the story.

1 May 2005:
Severe budget shortfalls in Canadian church
The Anglican Journal (Canada) reports
that expenses at General Synod, the national office of the Anglican Church
of Canada, need to be cut by CDN$415,000.

1 May 2005:
Bishop refutes claims made in newspaper advertisement
The Anglican Journal (Canada) reports
that the Rt Revd Fred Hiltz, Bishop of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward
Island, has refuted an advertisement announcing that 'the Anglican Church
of Canada had been expelled from “the governing council of the Canterbury
Communion for departing from biblical standards and tradition.”'

29 April
2005: ARCIC statement on the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Anglican Communion News Service reports
that ARCIC (the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission) is
set to release on 16 May a joint statement of understanding on the place
of Mary in the doctrine and life of the church.

29 April
2005: Bishop consecrated in Hanuato'o
The Anglican Communion News Service reports the
consecration of the Rt Revd Jonnie Kuper as Bishop of Hanuato'o.

29 April
2005: ABC slams the world economy
The Church Times reports
that the Archbishop of Canterbury, speaking at a Christian Aid service,
has blamed the global economy for leaving billions of children in extreme
need.

28 April
2005: Canadian moratorium on same-sex blessings
The Anglican Journal (Canada) reports
that 'At their regular spring meeting, bishops of the Anglican Church
of Canada unanimously agreed "neither to encourage nor to initiate" the
blessing of same-sex couples "until General Synod has made a decision
on the matter"'. The story was carried in numerous Canadian newspapers,
including the Winnipeg
Sun, the London
Free Press, and the Globe
and Mail (Toronto).

27 April
2005: College of Emmanuel and St Chad to close
The Anglican Journal (Canada) reports
that seven months after launching an $8.5 million fundraising campaign
to mark its 125th anniversary, the College of Emmanuel and St. Chad in Saskatoon
said it plans to close.

1 May 2005:
Bishop refutes claims made in newspaper advertisement
The Anglican Journal (Canada) reports
that the Rt Revd Fred Hiltz, Bishop of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward
Island, has refuted an advertisement announcing that 'the Anglican Church
of Canada had been expelled from “the governing council of the Canterbury
Communion for departing from biblical standards and tradition.”'

29 April
2005: ARCIC statement on the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Anglican Communion News Service reports
that ARCIC (the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission) is
set to release on 16 May a joint statement of understanding on the place
of Mary in the doctrine and life of the church.

29 April
2005: Bishop consecrated in Hanuato'o
The Anglican Communion News Service reports the
consecration of the Rt Revd Jonnie Kuper as Bishop of Hanuato'o.

29 April
2005: ABC slams the world economy
The Church Times reports
that the Archbishop of Canterbury, speaking at a Christian Aid service,
has blamed the global economy for leaving billions of children in extreme
need.

28 April
2005: Canadian moratorium on same-sex blessings
The Anglican Journal (Canada) reports
that 'At their regular spring meeting, bishops of the Anglican Church
of Canada unanimously agreed "neither to encourage nor to initiate" the
blessing of same-sex couples "until General Synod has made a decision
on the matter"'. The story was carried in numerous Canadian newspapers,
including the Winnipeg
Sun, the London
Free Press, and the Globe
and Mail (Toronto).

27 April
2005: College of Emmanuel and St Chad to close
The Anglican Journal (Canada) reports
that seven months after launching an $8.5 million fundraising campaign
to mark its 125th anniversary, the College of Emmanuel and St. Chad in Saskatoon
said it plans to close.

24
April 2005: Australia leads Anglican break to Rome
The Australian reports that 'The new Pope has established links with a group
of disaffected Anglicans seeking to form their own church affiliated to the
Vatican. Benedict XVI has held meetings with representatives of the Traditional
Anglican Communion, according to Archbishop John Hepworth, the rebel
group's primate.'

24 April
2005: Anglican bishops attend inauguration of new Pope
The BBC reports
that the Most Revd and Rt Hon Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury,
has attended Pope Benedict XVI's inauguration in the Vatican. The Times (London)
also reports on the attendance of Dr Williams, and notes that the US church
was represented by the Rt Revd Pierre Whalon, Bishop in Charge of the Convocation
of American Churches in Europe.

23 April
2005: Letters between bishops
Thinking Anglicans reports
on some correspondence among US bishops and to the Archbishop of Canterbury,
pertaining to the aftermath of the Windsor Report.

22 April
2005: Red Cross may change its name
The Church Times (London) reports
that the International Red Cross is considering the use of a red crystal
rather than a red cross or a red crescent to identify its military facilities.

22 April
2005: ABC to lead Anglican delegation to meet new Pope
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, will lead representatives
from the Anglican Delegation in Rome this weekend in a brief audience
with His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI on Monday morning (25th April) in Rome.

16 April
2005: African bishop supports condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS
PolitInfo reports
that the Bishop of Gambia has come out in support of the use of condoms
to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS. Most
African religious leaders continue their disapproval of the use of condoms
for this purpose.

10 April
2005: Pope died and was buriedHis Holiness Pope
John Paul II, of whom you have heard, died last week and was this week
interred in the crypt of St Peter, in Rome. Most of the world's religious
news this week has not actually been news, but rather essays about the man
and his works.

10 April
2005: Three new bishops in Fiji
The Fiji Times reports
that the Diocese of Polynesia has consecrated three new bishops. The
Rt Revds Gabriel Sharma, Apimeleki Qilho, and Winston Halapua were consecrated
at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Suva.

7 April
2005: Church in Wales Governing Body meeting
The Governing Body of the Church in Wales met recently in Aberystwyth. The
MNost Revd Barry Morgan, Archbishop of Wales, delivered this presidential
address about which this summary
press release was issued. His key message is that, as Anglicans, 'it
is difficult for us to be taken seriously when the present debate within
the Anglican Communion has been couched in harsh, confrontational tones'.

5 April
2005: Fabricated news about Gene Robinson causes stir On 13 February 2005, the Rt Revd Gene Robinson, Bishop of New Hampshire,
spoke in a Lenten Forum series at Christ
Church of Hamilton and Wenham in the Diocese of Massachusetts.
This church is part of the Network
of Anglican Communion Dioceses and Parishes, an organisation of conservatives
within the US Episcopal Church. His remarks and the following panel discussion
are recorded in full on that parish's
website, so there can be no doubt about what it is that Bishop Robinson
actually said. A week or so later, one of the better-known Episcopal bloggers
(someone who has never been guilty of letting facts intrude into a good
story) published a report on Bishop Robinson's remarks in which he (the
blogger) reported that Bishop Robinson said that Jesus was probably gay.
This story was picked up by a cub reporter at The Sunday Telegraph (London)
and published
as actual news. A certain number of people seem to have believed the
article, and there was a bit of a kerfuffle here and there in the world
media. Today the New Hampshire Union Leader reported
that Bishop Robinson held a press conference to denounce those reports
and draw attention to what he actually said. We take comfort in noting
that most of the world's newspapers did not make this mistake, and that
modern communications technology lets us easily refer to multiple news
sources before forming conclusions.

3 April
2005: Church and state in California
The San Francisco Chronicle reports
that the Bishop of California was very angry at Arnold Schwarzenegger,
California's governor, for vetoing the parole of a rehabilitated prisoner.
The church that had intended to employ him as a deacon was also
disappointed.

1 April
2005: The Ark, alive?
Despite the date, we believe this to be a legitimate report: the Church Times reports
that a British businesswoman is proposing a Bible-based
theme park in Yorkshire, whose centrepiece will be a replica of Noah's
ark built to the specifications recorded in Genesis.